23$ IN THE GUIANA FOREST. 



and every plant has had to accommodate itself to 

 a moist atmosphere that would destroy the inhabi- 

 tants of the eppeling or the mourie. As those 

 which live in the swamp are suited to the flood, 

 so these on the mountain have managed to adapt 

 themselves to the mist and driving rain without 

 injury. 



Yet they are not perfectly fitted to their sur- 

 roundings, and never will be so. The winds still 

 blow them down, and the rushing waters carry 

 their trunks to choke up the creeks in the valleys. 

 Death is necessary, and therefore it is here, as 

 elsewhere, a factor to be reckoned with. It is the 

 complement of life, and essential to progress. 



